TheLinguistic Landscape of Chinatown : : A Sociolinguistic Ethnography / / Jackie Jia Lou.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Lou, Jackie Jia,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Encounters
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Contents --; 1. Conceptualizing Linguistic Landscape: Language, Space and Place --; 2. Approaching Chinatown: Background and Methodology --; 3. Chinatown as Heterotopia: Urban Revitalization Through Linguistic Landscape --; 4. Situating Linguistic Landscape in Time --; 5. Situating Linguistic Landscape in Space --; 6. Conclusion and Reflection --; Appendix A --; Appendix B --; Appendix C --; Appendix D --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781783095636; 9783110663112; 9783110606706
• DOI: 10.21832/9781783095636
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jackie Jia Lou.

This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds a unique light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area's shifting linguistic landscape. Based on fieldwork, interviews with residents and visitors and analysis of community meetings and public policies, it provides an in-depth study of the production and consumption of linguistic landscape as a cultural text. Following a geosemiotic analysis of shop signs, it traces the multiple historical trajectories of discourse which shaped the bilingual landscape of the neighbourhood. Turning to the spatial contexts, it then compares and contrasts the situated meaning of the linguistic landscape for residents, community organisers and urban planners.